Employment Litigation, Class Representatives

Another Day, Another Dispute Between Appellate Courts Over Employment Arbitrations

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 4/1/2025

The case of Parra Rodriguez v. Packers Sanitation Services LTD., LLC typifies the reason employers and employment counsel must stay on top of arbitration case developments....more

Every PAGA Action Has An Individual Component Which May Be Subject To Arbitration

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 2/20/2025

Prior to the United States Supreme Court’s decision in Viking River Cruises Inc. v. Moriana, California courts did not consider the components of a Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) claim. ...more

California Supreme Court Rules that PAGA Claims May Be Pursued in Court Despite Arbitration Agreement

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 8/2/2023

Following the United States Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Moriana v. Viking River Cruises, California courts were tasked with the open question of whether an “aggrieved” employee whose individual Private Attorneys...more

PAGA Standing Allows a Plaintiff to Have One Foot in a Compelled Individual Arbitration and One Foot in a Representative Court...

BakerHostetler on 7/19/2023

On July 17, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Adolph v. Uber Technologies, Inc. (Cal. Sup. Ct. Case No. S274671), in which it addressed whether a plaintiff who is compelled to arbitrate their individual...more

Class Action Mooted When Class Representative Settles, Ninth Circuit Rules

Epstein Becker & Green on 6/26/2020

On June 3, 2020, the Ninth Circuit dismissed a wage and hour class action on the grounds that once the class representative plaintiff settled his individual claims and no longer had any financial stake in the litigation’s...more

Class Representatives Do Not Hold Veto Power Over Class Settlement

Carlton Fields on 4/17/2017

In In re FedEx Ground Package Sys., Inc. Employment Practices Litig., No. 3:05-CV-595 RLM, 2017 WL 632119 (N.D. Ind. Feb. 14, 2017), only one of a total of seven class representatives signed off on accepting a proposed class...more